Forms Quotes

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If you seek just a little truth, as most, you should not ignore abstract forms, the basis from which all short-lived experiences we call reality… — Eugene J. Martin
I don't want dead paint, so I test many of my works by studying them in a dark room at twilight or even after dark… — Will Barnet
Since the age of six I have had the habit of sketching forms of objects. Although from about fifty I have often published my pictorial… — Hokusai
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and… — E. J. Hughes
Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth. — Theodore Roosevelt
Contrary to what you may assume, I am not a pessimist but an indifferentist- that is, I don't make the mistake of thinking that the...… — H P Lovecraft
Direct and easy communications â€” freedom of speech in all forms and in its broadest sense â€” has become vital to the very survival of… — Walt Disney
We all flow from one fountain- Soul. All are expressions of one love. God does not appear, and flow out, only from narrow chinks and… — John Muir
In fact, Darwin's own grandfather anticipated the central tenet of Lamarckism by some seven years: "All animals undergo perpetual transformations; which are in part produced… — Erasmus Darwin
By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls. By each… — Edgar Allan Poe
To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to… — John Muir
Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons. — Pythagoras
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-. — Emily Dickinson
Our lives as we lead them as passed on to others, whether in physical or mental forms, tingeing all future lives together. This should be… — Luther Burbank
So erst the Sage [Pythagoras] with scientific truth In Grecian temples taught the attentive youth; With ceaseless change how restless atoms pass From life to… — Erasmus Darwin
And so in my mind's eye these coastal forms merge and blend in a shifting, kaleidoscopic pattern in which there is no finality, no ultimate… — Rachel Carson
By firm immutable immortal laws Impress'd on Nature by the GREAT FIRST CAUSE, Say, MUSE! how rose from elemental strife Organic forms, and kindled into… — Erasmus Darwin
When the spirit is understood, then life becomes not at all common, but a constant magical circus in which you see yourself reflected in all… — Frederick Lenz
Sometimes beings come forth from that realmless realm. Light incarnates and wanders around through the samsara, kind of looking at itself in various countless forms.… — Frederick Lenz
Tyranny may creep in under the outward forms of traditional law. — Joseph Sobran

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